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| 436781 | 2006-03-08 20:48:00 | I shut down my computer for the first time in a week last night, and now it comes up with checkdisk every time I boot it up, says some of the partitions on my SATA drive need checked & starts going through them. It is always the SATA drive it finds problems with, never my IDE drives. It fixes the mft on a couple of partitions that I think are empty, then tries to fix the mft on one of my partitions that only has about 1 gig of 40 gig used & says there is not enough free space to fix the mft. After it has gone through all that, it just stops & won't continue booting windows. If I cancel checkdisk, it says "checkdisk has been cancelled" & wont go any further. I left it for an hour & it was still the same. EDIT: I can boot into safe mode, but only if I cancel something loading when it gives me the option of pressing escape to not load it. I didn't get a chance to see what it was - the message doesn't stay up for long. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 436782 | 2006-03-08 21:18:00 | Hmm, I know some nasties / trojans / worms can make checkdisk come up all the time. I fixed a PC a few mths ago, which had around 250 nasties on it. Checkdisk wouldn't stop checking on startup, until I removed all of the spyware / adware on the hdd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 436783 | 2006-03-08 21:39:00 | I don't think it is malware causing it - I do a full scan with adaware every week. I've been getting chkdisk coming up on my SATA drive since I installed it. I think it is because of my cheap PCI SATA card. Windows is still on my 80 gig IDE drive so if it was malware causing it, it would probably be checking my IDE drives rather than my SATA drive. I installed a few old pinball games a couple of days ago that I used to like in the 98 days. Could they have messed something up? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 436784 | 2006-03-08 21:46:00 | It could be the PCI SATA card . Since Windows is still on the IDE hdd, if u boot from the IDE hdd, does it still bring up checkdisk, for the SATA?? I dont think the Pinball games would cause the prob . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 436785 | 2006-03-08 22:08:00 | Since Windows is still on the IDE hdd, if u boot from the IDE hdd, does it still bring up checkdisk, for the SATA?? I'm always booting from the IDE drive - I haven't got round to installing Linux yet. I just rebooted to try and see what the thing I cancelled loading was, missed my chance to get into safe mode & it booted normally after I cancelled checkdisk. I've been trying to boot it up since 8am & now it just decides to work again for no apparent reason :confused: |
Greven (91) | ||
| 436786 | 2006-03-08 22:22:00 | I think it is because of my cheap PCI SATA card. Windows is still on my 80 gig IDE drive so if it was malware causing it, it would probably be checking my IDE drives rather than my SATA drive. ? have you tried just disconnecting PCI SATA card and drive and just booting the ide drive? should give you an answer one way if it boots |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 436787 | 2006-03-08 22:43:00 | It seems to be booting fine every time now. I don't know what I've done to fix it. I let checkdisk run this time & it said there wan an unspecified error & continued booting. | Greven (91) | ||
| 436788 | 2006-03-09 00:16:00 | The expression "not good" comes to mind. | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 436789 | 2006-03-10 22:29:00 | I wrote down the name of the sys file that I had to cancel loading & googled it. turns out to be the driver that Alcohol uses to make virtual drives. No idea what happened to it - I've been running this version of alcohol for about 6 months & I haven't had a problem with it before. A lot of people are having the same problem with Daemon tools aswell. the file was vax347.sys if you were interested. |
Greven (91) | ||
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